Bed was super comfy, as was couch, very peaceful, spa was great. All clean and tidy. Grounds are gorgeous. Lovely ambience, charming.

Breakfast was a little too basic. Aldi brand snacks not what I expected at a $400+ per night accommodation. There was 1 small heart chocolate on the bed for us- a couple on our wedding anniversary - odd!! No milk frother with coffee machine to make the coffee properly. Not enough milk to use for cereal and coffee for 2 in the morning. Only 1 coffee pod each available for overnight stay. For "continental breakfast included" it seemed not well thought through.

It was spacious and warm inside the room after a long time of waiting for heater to kick in, it was a historic site

The bathroom floor extremely dirty, hardly any water coming out of the basin tap, only cold water even though we ran it for a good 10 minutes still no hot water. Bathroom is a wet room, even though it was dry it looked like mud had dried onto it. I thought it's stained that way until I ran a tissue over it to see how filthy it was. had to place towels on floor to walk in our socks into the bathroom. Heater was not turned on for us when we arrived at around 4pm and I had to ask them, took a long time to heat up the room. We arrived an hour earlier than planned but still it would had been cold. Remaining of property had no heating. We were not able to shower because of the floor issue but also with no hot water. Breakfast was poor 2 Aldi quality tiny apples, 2 Aldi quality muesli bars, 1 small individual serve pack of Just right cereal and 1 small individual serve of Wheat bix, 2 Aldi quality packed chocolate Croissants. Junk food apart from the apples. One small UHT milk. 2 tetra packs of Aldi apple juice. No bowls, no cutlery. It really doesn't take rocket science to serve up an acceptable continental breakfast at $325 for a night we really expected more, specially as that was more expensive than the Peppers we stayed at the night before with a full hot breakfast, a lit fire place and complimentary wines. The house is old and musty and that is ok because of it's age. But, it is such a shame it has been very badly neglected. No staff to be providing repairs and maintenance, seems they are cutting corners, and there was no one there on a Saturday night. No staff working or operating after 5pm. Very sad to see a business not cared for, it has huge potential if managed properly. Yes money would have to be invested to bring it up to a standard for the asking nightly accomodation rate and to match other properties in the area. It is a historic site but it should not rely on that for it accomodation quality. I would not return

beautiful historic home. the house can be viewed with a self guided tour, is well decorated and beautifully kept.

We have stayed there before in a building, The Schoolmasters House, seperate to the main house. These rooms are spacious with seating areas and views over the garden - quite lovely accomodation. This time we stayed in the main house which is the old inn, the rooms are much more compact. We had booked a “garden view room”. Our room on the 1st floor had no outlook at all, just 2 dormer windows which were too high to see out. This was disappointing and, although the room was quite nice, I would recommend anyone to stay in the Schoolmasters house to enjoy space and also the beautiful gardens.

the breakfast was self service - basic but worthwhile

Allowed our son's dog

Very noisy at night because of trains and wifi didn't work in our room!

Beautifully restored, peaceful and such a clean dog friendly place. Would definitely stay there again!

Unfortunately,Restaurant was closed when we got there :-(

The courtyard is beautiful. Although the building is old, it is well protected and clean. I like it very much. I can hear the train passing at 12:00 pm, but it doesn't affect my rest

The lady responsible for cleaning the room should knock at the door and ask before entering Instead of opening the door and trying to get in.

Lovely location and the history of the place was a great feature. It was hard to initially find our room but it was comfortable. As an old guest house, it was a fun place to stay, with lots of parking and lovely gardens. If one is looking for a modern and plush hotel, this is not the place but we enjoyed the old style of the house and found the room extremely comfortable.

The room was hard to find and we had to make a few calls as the staff were offsite. They were helpful and it was quickly sorted.

the History

fires not lit , main homestead looked tired and messy. mostly that hot breakfast is not served.

Beautiful historic Inn. Loved the room and surroundings, fascinating self guided history tour. Very quiet and cosy in our room.

The king size bed was very hard making sleep uncomfortable and the TV was small and kept shutting off for no reason? Very few staff, No restaurant or bar facilities everything self service.

Wonderful stay in historic inn through which you can take a self-guided tour at your leisure. Lovely big room with all comforts and facilities provided. Great breakfast pack provided and great kitchen facilities in main house. Lovely recreational areas provided in main house and surrounded by pretty gardens.

We were given a different room to what we booked - located in separate building and located up steep stairs, so difficult to access with luggage.

Staff very confused on arrival. Taken to two different rooms before they finally got it right and moved us to our correct room.

It was well named as it is a "Historic Retreat". The place was fantastic, well maintained and a good sample of our Australian Historic buildings. The grounds looked great but didn't get to walk around because of the weather. Nice they put on a lightning storm during our night there. Separate toilet & shower, both clean and modern. Couldn't think of a better place to stay in Mittagong. Thanks.

It was all great.

Clean, decor and historic

Railway line very close which disrupts sleep many times during the night.

The charm and character of the property

The mattress was quite firm.